Firewall Contracts in Essex

Firewall
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex requiring Firewall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Firewall over the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 15 19
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 +14
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Firewall 5 7 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 4.46% 5.47% 8.57%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 45.45% 28.00% 44.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 18
10th Percentile £316 - £473
25th Percentile £322 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £330 £300 £591
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -49.24% +39.06%
75th Percentile £350 £313 £605
90th Percentile £373 £335 £640
East of England median daily rate £550 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +37.50% -11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.50 -
East of England median hourly rate £30.00 £21.63 £72.50
% change year-on-year +38.73% -70.17% +38.10%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Essex

Firewall falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Essex.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 11 25 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 9.82% 19.53% 19.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 30
10th Percentile £224 £213 £184
25th Percentile £231 £278 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £325 £543
Median % change year-on-year - -40.09% +27.65%
75th Percentile £338 £400 £600
90th Percentile £433 £475 £638
East of England median daily rate £525 £400 £456
% change year-on-year +31.25% -12.33% +7.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - £18.91 £73.25
25th Percentile - £23.63 £74.38
Median hourly rate £200.00 £33.75 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +492.59% -56.45% +260.47%
75th Percentile - £48.31 £79.38
90th Percentile - £63.28 £79.75
East of England median hourly rate £63.75 £48.56 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.28% -25.29% +170.38%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Essex

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Firewall.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Firewall

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Firewall.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Firewall

Firewall
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Essex region over the 6 months to 19 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Harlow - 2 £330 -
Basildon +4 1 £375 +25.00% 4
Firewall
East of England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (20.00%) Broadband
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (20.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Field Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Network Field Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Audit Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Design Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Implementation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Server Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Change Management
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (20.00%) ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Extreme Networks
2 1 (20.00%) F5
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Zscaler